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OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:13 unnamed speaker If you see this sort of Stuart Butterfield-esque reluctance to go multi-product, which was very rational at that time and place, then, uh, I would be less excited to hold stock.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 5:16 Kim Graves And that was Stuart Butterfield, and he was starting Slack.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:23 unnamed speaker My view, Stuart is a generational founder, right?
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:35 AJ Tennant On, on kind of like how you're getting those initial customers to product market fit, you know, at, at Slack and at Glean, you know, at Slack, Stuart was very involved on figuring out how to get those first customers and making them…
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:17 Mamoon Hamid And I would put Stuart Butterfield from Slack in that bucket.
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:01 Jason Lemkin Stuart Butterfield offered to give his back. 2 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:03 Harry Stebbings Actually, the Stuart Butterfield and Slack example always rings true for me.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:02 Jason Lemkin And Stuart Butterfield, when it didn't make it, his second gaming company, he offered to give all the money back. 4 times in the scene
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:15 Noah Weiss So a couple of years into the company, what we realized, I think the why behind why we created these was as a company with scaling and the average person who's working in product development is kind of further away every day from working… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Noah Weiss And it felt like, honestly, and Stuart said this publicly too, that pandemic and the shift to this hybrid world, I think it kind of gave us almost a new level of, of meaning or consider the work that we were doing, because the level that…
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:47 Ariel Cohen One of them is Stuart Butterfield, right?
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:42 Maggie Hott Stuart's charter for the sales team was to help our customers, which I absolutely loved.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:41 Jason Lemkin Gary Tan and Keith, Roboy and David Sacks and Stuart. 2 times in the scene
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 35:23 Kyle Parrish I think their, Stuart's notorious for saying, oh, we're not going to build a sales team, right, early on.
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 29:58 Sameer Gandhi But if you're George or someone like that, or Stuart at Slack or Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, you know, or
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 3:40 Emilie Choi To work with people like Jeff Wiener, and then to acquire people like Stuart Butterfield.
- ▶ 40:14 Emilie Choi You know, Stuart Butterfield, he was like, oh, I hate giving feedback. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 8:30 Hubert Palan I mean, if you look at Stuart Butterfield, right?
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 8:29 Harry Stebbings In terms of, like, the leadership avenue, I spoke to Stuart Butterfield recently, and he said the hardest thing for me is I say something, and I say it kind of flippantly, and then a month later, it's done, and the whole org is… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 43:59 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode with Stuart Butterfield, founder and CEO at Slack on Monday.
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 21:01 Merci Victoria Grace Stewart's, uh, the CEO and founder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Merci Victoria Grace And so this sort of, you know, blends into another thing that I've talked with a lot of founders about, but you need to be good at Twitter and people like Connor at Rome and people like Rahul at Superhuman, of course, Stuart at Slack are…
20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- ▶ 16:31 Brianne Kimmel You see CEOs like Stuart from Slack, Eric from Zoom, Vlad from Webflow, and these great places to work, they don't happen by coincidence.
20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Chris has also assembled 50 other on-demand advisors to aid portfolio companies, including Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield, AltSchool founder Max Ventilla, and Pinterest president Tim Kendall.
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 21:18 Ilya Fushman From my experience, if you're lucky enough to be a Drew Houston or a Stuart Butterfield or, you know, Mark Zuckerberg or any one of these iconic founders, there are very few people in the world who can give you candid, unsolicited,…
Immediately's Branko Cerny on The Rise Of Bottoms Up Sales and The Importance of Branding For Enterprise SaaS Companies
- ▶ 16:23 Branko Cerny You have, you have the slacks of the world, which, you know, um, the, the famous, we don't sell saddles, and, and is the, is the same, is the same kind of concept where, where Stuart was very clear about their selling a, a better way of…
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 22:01 Hiten Shah But one thing we know for sure is Stuart, Stuart Butterfield and the team, they've come out and said when we, you know, we were very deliberate about as we had more size of companies and